Shirt-band tab.



' A. BERNSTEIN.

SHIRT BAND TAB 4 Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6, I915.

A. BERNSTEIN.

SHIRT BAND TAB.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6. 1915.

Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

ALEX BERNSIEIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHIRT-BANIU TAB.

Patented 114:, 191%.

Application filed March 6, 1915. Serial lilo. 12,527.

to the accompanying drawings, and to the numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

This inventionrclates to the construction of tabs for use on shirts having no neck or collar bands, so that a collar may be attached to the shirt by means of said tabs and without the inconvenience arising such as is sometimes occasioned by collar bands when the collars are not of the proper relative size to be correctly fastened around the band.

It, is an object therefore of this invention to construct an improved device forconnection upon the neck portions of shirts to provide a means for attaching a collar thereto.

It is furthermore an important object of this invention to constructdetachable tabs for attachment at the front and back of a shirt neck to provide a means of connection thereto of a collar, thus obviating the noses sity of a shirt collar band, and permitting collars of different size than the shirt within certain ranges, to be conveniently worn therewith.

it is finally an object of this invention to provide an improved construction for attaching collars to shirts obviating the necessity of the ordinary stiff starched collar shirt bands and the disadvantages which result from the use thereof, of which the tearing of the shirt fabric from the band is the most general objection.

The invention (in a preferred form) is illustrated in the drawings and hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of the neck of a shirt equipped with attaching tabs embodying the principlesof my invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary top view of the tab attached at the back of the shirt neck. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the tab attached at the front of the shirt neck. Fig. 4- is a front elevation of the tab used at the front of the shirt neck. Fig. 5 is a detail section taken on line'55 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a detail sectiontaken on line 6 (3 of Fig-1. Fig. 7 is a view similar toFig. 1, illustrating a modified form of tab used with the shirt. Fig. 8 is an interior elevation of the tab used at the back of the neck. Fig. 9 is a top edge view thereof.

section taken on line 101O of Fig. 7

As shown in the drawings, the body of a shirt is denoted by the reference numeral 1, and the neck thereof by the reference numeral 2, the neck and body of the shirt opening at the front in the usual manner. The neck of the shirt may preferably consist of merely a soft finished edge of the fabric in place of the customary stiff upright collar band usually provided. Attaching tabs are mounted on the neck at the front and rear thereof to afford means of connection for a collar to the shirt, the tab at the back of the neck being denoted as a whole by the reference numeral 3, and the tab at the front of. the neck by the reference numeral l, said tabs being preferably constructed of a relatively stiff material, for instance celluloid or the like.

Rigidly secured upon the tab 8, are a pair of attaching buttons 5, which, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, are adapted to engage through buttonholes provided in the neck 2, of the shirt, to hold the tab attached thereon, and also securely fastened in said tab 3, is a back collarbutton 6, to receive a collar' fastened thereon. The front tab at is almost exactly the same in construction, the only difierence being that attaching buttons 7, are provided on one side of the tab, and a front collar button 8, is rigidly secured onthe opposite side thereof, as cle rly shown in Fig. 3. In order to attach the tab 4-, in place, the neck 2, is provided with pockets 9, on each side thereof provided with suitable buttonholes to receive the buttons 7, therethrougli, so that the tab 4:, when in attached position, lies between the pocket members, and the front fabric'portion of the neck 2.

In the modification of my invention illustrated in Figs. 7 to 10 inclusive, I have illustrated attaching tabs for connection at the front and back of the shirt neck which may preferably be made of fabric and thus conveniently laundried. The latter tabs are denoted respectively by the reference numerals 10 and 11, and the back tab 10, is provided with buttons 12, stitched thereto Fig. 10 is a detail for insertion through buttonholes provided in the neck of the shirt, which is designated by the reference numeral 13. Said tab 10, is provided with a buttonhole l l, through which a back collar button may be inserted for attachment of a collar thereto. The front tab 11, is provided with small buttonholes at eachend thereof to receive attaching buttons 15, therethrough, as clearly shown in Fig. 10, the buttons 15, being stitched on the interior of the neck 13, or the shirt. Said front tab 11, is also provided with a central buttonhole 16, similar to the buttonhole let, of the back tab, to receive inserted therethrough a front collar button for attachment of the collar to th shirt;

The operation of my invention is thought viate the use of separate'collar buttons, so

that the. inconvenience occasioned by the loss of a collar button is thereby avoided. The fabric attaching tabs illustrated in Figs. 7 to 10 inclusive afford a convenient means of attachment of a collar to a shirt means on said tabs for connecting a collar thereto.

2. The combination with a neckbandless shirt, of means for connecting a collarto the neck portion thereof, comprising upstanding tabs detachably secured V at the' v ALEX jennusrnin, Witnesses:

CHARLES W. HILLs, J11,

FRANK K. HUDsoN.

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